These sensors can detect diseases using your breath

The researchers made sensors from porous thin films of organic conductive plastics with the goal of portable, disposable devices for medical and environmental monitoring. [Image from L. Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois]

Disease markers and toxins in a building’s air could soon be detected on portable and disposable sensor devices being created by University of Illinois researchers.

The device is made from small, thin, organic plastic that is in the shape of a square. The researchers have so far been able to monitor ammonia in patients’ breath, which can be an indicator of kidney failure.

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